Lowell Cohn's pertinent and impertinent take on sports

Be careful about Brandon Jacobs

Some of you have written in criticizing Brandon Jacobs the person. If you want to criticize the player, fine. But you don’t know him as a person and neither do I. Some are leaping to conclusions he was lazy, a problem in the locker room, a bad guy. How do you know? I keep an open mind until someone shows me he did something dreadful. Tweeting is not dreadful although I can understand how what he wrote would irritate Harbaugh. I won’t miss Jacobs, but I do not assume he is a bad person. I assume the situation did not work out for both parties. Period.